Dave Niehaus will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Sunday morning, and if you haven't started driving yet, well, we don't think you'll be able to make it to Cooperstown by then. Luckily for you, the 10:30 a.m. ceremony will be broadcast on ESPN Classic and over the radio on 950 KJR. The Hall of Fame may have some sort of live streaming on their website; however, this is the Baseball Hall of......

The cost of fielding a perennially bad team may finally start hitting the Mariners in the bank account next season. The P-I is reporting that the M's will move to KIRO-AM next year in a $5.5 million per year deal for three seasons. This season, at KOMO-AM, the M's are earning $10 million in radio revenue. The huge reduction in radio revenue can be attributed to lower ratings, due to the team's poor performance as......

Mariner fans spent last night drinking champagne, and toasting Dave Niehaus’ selection to the Hall of Fame. As we’ve noted many, many times before, his exclusion from the broadcaster wing in Cooperstown is a greater travesty than Guantanamo Bay and the 2000 Presidential Election combined. Since we first heard the news, we have been basking in the glow that someone who brings us so much joy has finally received the highest honor in his profession,......

Great news comes for Seattle Mariners fans from Cooperstown today. (We would advise that you don't get too cozy with that phrase M's fans... 'cause it's not something you'll be hearing very often.) Beloved long time Mariners announcer, Dave Niehuas will be inducted into Cooperstown's Broadcasting Hall of Fame. The news of the honor comes on Niehaus' 73rd birthday. It was announced he has been awarded the Ford C. Frick Award, which is given......

Game's at 4:05 EST, the weather report is "definite light snow showers" from 11am-8pm, and "likely snow showers" after that. Can anyone remember the last time the M's played in snow? Meanwhile, we're looking at 71 and clear--and with the game not on TV, looks like a good day to sit on our porch, drink beer, and grill up a few hot dogs with Dave Niehaus as the soundtrack. If we didn't have to work,......

It was the spring of 1989, and Ken Griffey Jr., a 19-year-old with 61 at bats above A-ball, embarrassed Cactus League pitchers and made the Mariners. It is the spring of 2007, and Brandon Morrow, a 22-year-old who's thrown 16 innings professionally, is embarrassing Cactus League hitters and forcing himself into the M's bullpen mix. Morrow, the M's first round pick (5th overall) in last June's draft, has thrown 6.1 scoreless innings in four appearances......

Which of the following will you not hear on a Mariners television broadcast this season: A. "Lined back up the middle, and that is Vidro's third hit of the game." B. "Swing and a miss, and it's over. The Amazing Horacio has come through again." C. Rick Rizzs D. All of the above. Sadly, the answer is D. The Mariners have announced their 2007 broadcast team, following the departure of Ron Fairly, and Rizzs is......

In yesterday's NL Division Series game vs. the Mets, the Dodgers' Jeff Kent and J.D. Drew got tagged out at home on the same play (video available here). Your loveably loseable Seattle Mariners also once "accomplished" this, in a 1985 game against the Blue Jays, but theirs was even weirder. After a run-down of the players involved, we give you the report from the original Retrosheet box score: Dramatis Personae: Phil Bradley: Mariners leftfielder......

This is Mariner pitcher Mark Lowe. In April, while you were living in the same city you are now, working the same job, Lowe was in Lancaster, California, pitching for the Inland Empire 66ers of the California League, against such baseball powerhouses as the Modesto Nuts. After 13 games, he moved up to AA San Antonio. After 11 games there, he moved to the bigs. That's like getting promoted from Executive Assistant to the Director......

The Mariners mood swing of a season continues tonight in Toronto. The blue and teal are three games under .500 and three games back of the first place A's and Rangers. After their last two efforts, being three games out at the All-Star break is wonderful. Mariners fans have serious cause to believe that this team can be in the the race until the final days of Seafair. Following a June where they made the......

Yes, the M's won yesterday, pulling within 3.5 games of first-place Oakland. But not without another startling managerial gaffe. With runners on the corners, and two outs in the Dodgers fourth, Hargrove had Joel Pineiro pitch to the #8 hitter instead of walking him to get to the pitcher. Of course, the #8 hitter singled, driving in a run, and even Dave Niehaus, who is rarely critical, lamented "I don't understand why you don't walk......

We guarantee that sometime during this week's crucial series against Oakland, Dave Niehaus will employ the phrase "house of horrors" to describe McAfee Coliseum. With good reason. It's where Mariners seasons have traditionally gone to die. Even during the glory season of 1995, the Mariners were not immune to the Coliseum's mojo. In a mid-August game, Mike Blowers made two errors in the ninth inning, leading to two unearned runs and a 3-2 loss......

Sixteen years ago today Randy Johnson threw the first no-hitter in Mariners history. The 6'10'' lefthander scattered 6 walks in the 2-0 victory over Detroit. 20,014 lucky fans (we still have our ticket stub somewhere) packed the Kingdome on that probably rainy Saturday night. Across the region tens of people were glued to the radio as Dave Niehaus called the action. The final pitch, which actually bounced off of the roof before landing in the......

Interleauge play begins again this weekend. In baseball stadiums all over the West geographical rivals will stare each other down: Oakland vs. San Francisco, Houston vs. Texas, Los Angeles of Los Angeles vs. Los Angeles of Anaheim, and Seattle vs. San Diego. Yeah, we know, the Padres again. While everyone else in the AL West will celebrate a weekend of, "We're neighbors so I hate you," we will end up dancing with the only girl......

There are some Seattle sports fans who complain that our teams don't get enough national media attention. Yeah, we know it's true, and there are times when it irks us a bit, but we understand. Seriously, have you seen where we are on a map? Ultimately we really don't care because know it doesn't matter. There is one national publication, however, which has been giving our local squads a lot of attention recently, The Onion.......

Rainier Beach, Seattlest's favorite high school hoops team, got upset in the state quarterfinals last night, by Lynden High. But, really, what chance did they stand against a team that has players with names like Dirk Dallas and Brady Bomber. Dallas had 19 points, Bomber had 15. Is this a high school basketball team or a 30's detective novel? The Seahawks released two defensive starters and a no-name, possibly to free up the money they'll......

Ex-Houston Astros broadcaster Gene Elston is winner of the Ford Frick Broadcasting Award, and, as such, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this summer. Elston beat out nine other finalists for the award, including the only one who deserves it, Mariner broadcaster Dave Niehaus. Niehaus was also a finalist last year, when he inexplicably lost out to noted malapropist Jerry Coleman. Coleman chose to use language, considered the greatest triumph of the human......

Ten years ago, this very day, was what Mariners announcer Dave Niehaus once described as "one terrible moment in Mariners history." There have been a lot of terrible moments in Mariner history, but none quite as spectacular as the leaping catch Ken Griffey Jr. made at the Kingdome's right-centerfield wall on May 26th, 1995. A young, bad-complexioned Seattlest attended the game, and it was the best catch we have ever seen. Our acne has......

Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus, who has been with the team since its inception, has once again been snubbed by the Hall of Fame. Niehaus was a finalist for the Ford C. Frick award, which is given to baseball's best broadcasters. This year's winner is, inexplicably, the San Diego Padres' Jerry Coleman. Coleman has long been regarded as one of baseball's worst announcers, prone to such verbal infelicities as: "Rich Folkers is throwing up in......